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Title: The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Glasgow J. MacLehose
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ained untill the sixtof August, still keeping watch upon the hils to looke forour Generall, and so great was our vexation and anguishof soule, as I thinke never flesh and blood endured more.Thus our miserie dayly increasing, time passing, andour hope of the Generall being very colde, our Captaineand Master were fully perswaded, that the Generall mightperhaps goe directly for The Streights, and not come tothis harborough : whereupon they thought no course moreconvenient than to goe presently for The Streights, andthere to stay his comming, for in that place hee couldnot passe, but of force wee must see him : whereuntothe companie most willingly consented, as also theCaptaine and Master of the pinnesse; so that uponthis determination wee made all possible speede todepart. The sixt of August wee set saile, and went to Penguin-isle, and the next day wee salted twentie hogsheads ofseales, which was as much as our salt could possiblydoe, and so wee departed for The Streights the poorest 400
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< LAST VOYAGE OF THOMAS CANDISH a.d. 1592.wretches that ever were created. The seventh of Augusttowarde night wee departed from Penguin-isle, shapingour course for The Streights, where wee had full con-fidence to meete with our General!. The ninth weehad a sore storme, so that wee were constrained to hull,for our sailes were not to indure any force. The 14 weewere driven in among certaine Isles never before dis- Certawe Lkscovered by any knowen relation, lying fiftie leagues j.^^^ beforeor better from the shoare East and Northerly from The ieaeue7riorth-Streights: in which place, unlesse it had pleased God east off Theof his wonderfull mercie to have ceased the winde, wee Streights.must of necessitie have perished. But the windeshifting to the East, wee directed our course for TheStreights, and the 18 of August wee fell with theCape in a very thicke fogge ; and the same night weankered ten leagues within the Cape. The 19 day wee The first andpassed the first and the second Streight

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